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Elke Bergholz on Christmas Eve, wearing a Santa-hat and preparing an ozonesode. The NOAA team needs to monitor all data collection also on holidays. On Christmas eve, we were scheduled to launch a stratospheric ozonesonde. At this moment Elke is turning off the high-ozone switch on the ozone instrument. Inside of the Balloon Inflation Facility (BIF), at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica.

Credit to read: Photo by Amy Cox, Courtesy of Elke Bergholz (PolarTREC 2007/2008), Courtesy of ARCUS

Photographer: Elke Bergholz
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